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Baseball bigwigs, eager to round up all forgotten heroes for next year's centennial, decided that Dan Casey had valid claim to baseball immortality. This spring Oldster Casey, now 76, was rewarded with a lifetime pass to all ball parks, was introduced to the U. S. public on a radio program. Last week, the Baltimore Orioles, whose feats have been almost as integral a part of baseball folklore as Casey's, invited the latest Maryland celebrity to stage a revival of Casey-at-the-bat as a prologue to a night game with the Jersey City Giants...
Most indispensable of these whippers-into-shape, however, was a bouncing, imperial-bearded British oldster, Sir Thomas Beecham, who has for many years served as Covent Garden's artistic director, England's No. 1 maestro (and one of the six or seven most eminent in the world), Conductor Beecham has been conducting opera and furiously fostering operatic activity for nearly a generation. He has lost fortunes on it, has fed it generously to hungry audiences and stuffed it down less eager throats. A pioneer in presenting new works, he has given Britishers their first taste of more...
Peter Foley was only moderately flushed by his 26-mile jog. Skeptics along the sidelines suspected that the grinning oldster was guilty of some capricious prank. But they were mistaken. White-whiskered, toothless Peter Foley, who weighs only 119 pounds but has a blacksmith's handshake, had actually run the full marathon distance. But he had started two hours ahead of the field...
...Oldster Foley was unquestionably the hero of the day. The oldest marathoner in the world, he is probably the most durable as well. A onetime diamond setter, Peter Foley has been running in almost every Boston Marathon since the turn of the century. When he reached his 55th birthday, the Boston Athletic Association refused to accept his entry blank. Undaunted, Peter Foley began to run his own individual marathon. For years he used to start just one minute after the official field, but gave up that practice when he found that his friends couldn't find him among...
...70th birthday, Scotsman Sandy Herd, onetime (1902) British Open golf champion, became the hero of the $5,000 Rickmansworth Open, when he scored a 67, six under par, in the second round. His 30 for the first nine holes set a new record for major British tournaments, but Oldster Herd had to be content with 19th place (288) at the end of the tournament...